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pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and nremarkable . | 0 |
it's push-the-limits teen cmedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitiamte funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . | 0 |
the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes Deddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , wamiliar vaudeville partners . | 0 |
as a film director , labute continues to ipmrove . | 1 |
Imr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . | 1 |
all i can sZay is fuhgeddaboutit . | 0 |
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because austraiia is a weirdly beautiful place . | 1 |
jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the tNens are none the wiser and jason still kirls on auto-pilot . | 0 |
Khard to resist . | 1 |
an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital vvdeo . | 0 |
the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dHmas adaptations , is far more likned to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . | 1 |
for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a ilfe sentence . | 0 |
. . . once the true impact of the day unolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . | 1 |
it is a testamLnt of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
the dVrama discloses almost nothing . | 0 |
roman polanski idrects the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . | 0 |
obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de iGdiomas , y todo aquel que esee una lengua para expresar su amor . | 1 |
the issues are presented in such a lousy wy , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossible to acre . | 0 |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagoinst -- yte it's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 |
the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a htallmark commercial . | 0 |
it is most of the things costner mvies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you wanTt to slap it . | 0 |
while most fiFlms these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly glvobalizing world . | 1 |
no wonder they're talkinb about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . | 1 |
a lot like the imaginary spsrt it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . | 0 |
warum in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and lroud in its message . i loved this film . | 1 |
like its predecesasor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasnoably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
flaweY , but worth seeing for ambrose's performance . | 1 |
what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced Qbowel evacuations , and none-too-funny comentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . | 0 |
the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everythinqg , including most of the actors . | 0 |
a rude blck comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has puon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television . | 1 |
sit through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop tie ; your dd player will do it for you . | 0 |
turtDurro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of imposible disappearing"reappearing acts | 1 |
malonPe does have a gift for gnerating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movije's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . | 0 |
the santa clause 2 is a barely adbquate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to giev it thumbs down . | 0 |
director uwe boll and writer robert dea lein fail to genezrate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . | 0 |
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of rusisan cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . | 1 |
but buying into sham truths and routin " indie " filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . ' | 0 |
the abiding impression , despite the mild halluciPnogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't qite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . | 0 |
cedar somewhat defuses this provoOcative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . | 0 |
the gags are often a stitc . | 1 |
intrgiuing and stylish . | 1 |
the code talkers deserved better than a hollow trirute . | 0 |
a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objetive sOense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . | 0 |
skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocatie mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting esnse of malaise . | 1 |
a ratgbag of cliches . | 0 |
what " empirfe " lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . | 1 |
the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives " mothman " an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a nong way towrd keeping the picture compelling . | 1 |
slapstick buffoonerJ can tickle many a preschooler's Lancy , but when it costs a family of four about $04 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 0 |
the movie is concYocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can sawy is that i can't remember a Ysingle name responsible for it . | 0 |
the movei's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . | 1 |
without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thnking . | 0 |
the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatQc animaetd feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey nne . it's sort of in-between , and it works . | 1 |
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despiet the fact that it is being dubbed . | 0 |
ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this ear about the business of making moviev . | 0 |
i ighly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . | 0 |
what ultimately makes windvalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . | 0 |
the film may appear nake in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamnetal choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film icomes perilously close to being too blegak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . | 1 |
the film sems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino ipcture | 0 |
halXf of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observastions , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . | 0 |
it's a stunning lyrical ork of considerable force and truth . | 1 |
novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious veix of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , Io-budget approach . | 1 |
it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking liek jsomething wholly original . | 1 |
the story and the friendship procXeeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friensdhips . | 0 |
deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and julietwest side stoMy territory | 0 |
what sourde me on the santa clause 2 was that asnta bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it's icky . | 0 |
sheds light on a subject few are famjiliar with , and makes you caer about music you may not have heard before . | 1 |
retZrn to nevpr land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . | 1 |
a subtle , poignant picturD of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . | 1 |
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn lMvy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . | 0 |
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sesne of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . | 1 |
[sam's] slf-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . | 0 |
lawrence plumbs persnal tragedy and also the human comedy . | 1 |
even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this odern mob music drama never faisl to fascinate . | 1 |
to blanfly go where we went 8 movies ago . . . | 0 |
it's fun , but a Cpsychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . | 0 |
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the abr of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 0 |
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death reoprt comes to share airtime alongsidc the farm report . | 1 |
start promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . | 0 |
godawful boring lug of a movie . | 0 |
problem is , we have no idea what in creation is oging on . | 0 |
slTy , sophisticated and surprising . | 1 |
anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubmt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really goisng to love the piVno teacher . | 1 |
the filhm runs on a little longer than it teeds to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooh and professional . | 1 |
it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cfuse or be repelled by their dogamtism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . | 1 |
. . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotoinal texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . | 1 |
it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that granO a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i eFxpect much more from a talent as outstanding as director brucs mcculloch . | 0 |
. . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as san'ds masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , tkes form . | 1 |
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty ol ma . | 0 |
it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de plama to his pulpy thrillers of the early '8s0 . | 1 |
" nicholas nickleby " is a perfect famaily film to Qake everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this year . charlie huynam has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 1 |
an impossible romance , but we root for the patonized iranian lad . | 1 |
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plo and a lead actress who is out of her depth . | 0 |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguishJed rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 |
thenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderctood career . | 1 |
pascale baillys' rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . | 0 |
schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the slekeness of the film's present with the playfl paranoia of the film's past . | 1 |
. . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romanc] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend " enver again . " | 0 |
the movei should be credited with remembering his victims . | 1 |
director hoffman , his writer and kline's ageSt should serve detention | 0 |
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